Comment by doubleunplussed
5 days ago
Certainly something they're aware of - the same concept was discussed as early as in 2007 on Less Wrong under the name "evaporative cooling of group beliefs"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporativ...
haha, classic LWer reply
"someone wrote a weirdly labeled thing about this once so they must not be subject to the phenomena'
does the existence of a piece of writing on a topic really immunize the community from the disease @doubleunplussed?
I didn't say it did, I said they're aware of it.
Also thought it was worth pointing out that the LW "weird label" predates the label in the comment I replied to.